Girl Last Seen Quotes

“She had her secrets but she wasn't dangerous- She was just lost.”
― Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen

“The humiliation of filling out the health questionnaire with questions about whether or not I used intravenous drugs or had unprotected sex in the last x weeks. The nurse’s porcine little eyes watching me from under her low brow bone with that look that plainly says don’t complain, you did this to yourself.
I want to blow up in her face sometimes. Throw the fucking cup and the clipboard with the questions. Tell her that I didn’t do this to myself, I wasn’t the one who stole me, who broke me. She probably doesn’t know, or give a fuck.”
― Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen

“In the books and movies, the broken girl always dies at the end. Sometimes she’s allowed one final heroic act, one last snarky line before she goes out. Maybe she sacrifices herself to save the real hero, or maybe her death is just a meaningless accident, an afterthought. But she always dies, because she’s too tarnished to live.
Every time I see her die, I’m jealous. That should have been me, a long time ago.”
― Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen

“I don’t reach out for the pastel box of tissues on her table. I refuse to be that cliché.”
― Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen

“I really thought I’d be angrier. Or maybe devastated. Or something. I thought I’d want to scream and throw things or drug myself into oblivion. But sometime in the last fifteen minutes, a part of me accepted this as normal, a confirmation of what I’ve already known for a long time. I’m all alone. No human being can be trusted.”
― Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen

“I'm more than ten years older than you. That doesn't bother you?"
"No. I've been in love with you since I first saw you, and I was thirteen."
This is probably the most honest thing that's ever passed my lips. Seeing him flinch like I slapped him---like my one moment of truth was an insult---hurts on a level beyond the physical.”
― Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen